6 Gifts to Give Your Foodie Friends

All the can't-miss items for your friends who love to cook and eat

There's no question that gluttons and gourmets like presents as much as anybody. In fact, they probably like presents more than anybody, given how much of their lives revolves around their appetites. But what can you get them? A box of candy? A spatula? There is no foodie equivalent of a working replica of LBJ's telephone or the chance to meet Jim Steinman, to name two of my own must-haves. But there are a few items that even the most self-indulgent gourmand would balk at buying for himself. And these would most certainly include, in no particular order, the following.

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